Thread 214474331

Isn't it mad to think India used to be very wealthy and advanced while today it is a giant stinking shithole?

did it though

>>214474331 (OP)
The first part of the claim is hard to believe

It never was, it wasn't even a united state before the Brits did it for them

>>214474427

False. India has been united atleast twice before colonization, atleast one of those was under the Gupta empire and later under Mughals. You are incorrect

>>214474360
>>214474375
>>214474427
it was THOUGH
I didn't think it would be so controversial for /int/chuds

>>214474484
The Gupta empire never controlled the Deccan neither they or the Mughals controlled South India

>>214474510
Source?
>le bengal manufacturing powerhouse 25% of all world production 200 years ago
Source?

>>214474484
The Mughals were turkic foreigners subjugating you lmao

>>214474575
>Source?
it's such a common fact I didn't think of getting a source

>>214474656
That's not how it works, champ

>>214474579
The history of the jeet continent is steppetards from central asia showing up, ruining the place even further, and then assimilating. The mughals merely subjugated the invaders that came before them.
Interestingly, it's the brits who broke this tradition due to the unique aspects of industrial age colonialism.

I think it is because Indians has a caste system, lowest cast supposed run the cleaning and sanitation. So no one wants be the cleaner, because no one want to be the Dalits, so no one will clean the Ganges and they all be filthy.

>>214474656
We do need a source when it disagrees with my worldview, chud

>>214474331 (OP)
The East India Company out of London ran India like a premodern Ancapistan for 200 years, during this time it did everything possible to plunder the place, off the top of my head:
>dispossessed smallholder farmers and rented their farmlands back to them
>forced farmers to plant opium (to sell in china), farmers weren't planting enough food anymore, massive famines ensue
>sold british-made mass produced goods while blocking industrialization in india, forcing the (then-vibrant) indian artisanal class back to farming to survive
>accomplished the ability to do this with jewish divide and conquer tactics
The occupation of india was one of the most unrespectable examples of colonialism in history and I will NOT let anglos get away with it

India will rebound. We always do.

>>214474331 (OP)
If India was so rich and stronk, why did it get utterly buckbroken by a couple of Europeans on boats?

saaaaaaaaar india was wealthy and richest country in world before britisher blaaddy basters stole our jewels and looted our moneyyyy !!!!!!!

>>214475955
They voted for it

>>214477209
It didn't happen in a day, the european outposts in india in the beginning went through decades of irrelevance and various failed military takeovers
When Nader Shah (successfully) invaded india this created the necessary chaos to give foreign powers an advantage

>>214476969
a few more years eh? Superpower status is just around the corner or however the roti crumbles